The Homes Our Ancestors Built
Throughout my own genealogy research, I’ve learned one of the tricks of finding more information behind a line of text on census records.
Month: November 2016
Paleography: The Study of Old Handwriting
Emily Dockery, a specialist in Paleaography, explains what this is how and it is helpful in preserving old documents in this recent interview.
Psychogenealogy…What is it?
Psychology. Genealogy. We all know what these are but what does it mean when you put these two seemingly unrelated topics together into a whole new concept? A recent interview with Jason Kelly Thompson, expert and professor of psychogenealogy, explains more about this and how it can affect each and every one of us.
Genealogy Meets American History in this 11th Generation Family Business
We all know that the United States started out as a set of colonies in the 1600s. The colonists farmed, built towns, raised children and farm animals to create a life for themselves in this new world. As these colonies multiplied and became a country, an early farming outpost, now called Shirley Plantation, also grew along the James River in…
The Stories That School Yearbooks Can Tell
Do you have a collection of yearbooks from when you were in school? Have you ever gone through your parent’s yearbooks to see what they did or to see how funny they may have looked in their pictures?
Cooking With Your Ancestors
Being an American, I cook American food. American food that we’ve created as a country as well as food that we’ve adjusted from recipes that our ancestors brought with them when they came to this country. I found a few German recipes and decided to give cooking them a chance. For this meal, I chose a main dish, side dish and…
Hope is Not Lost! Recovering Data From a Hard Drive Gone Bad
Imagine this…you get up in the morning, eat your breakfast and sit down to your computer with a cup of coffee to check your email to see if a relative or family connection has sent you anything new for your family tree. As you wait for your computer to wake up, you realize that it isn’t working. It won’t…
Using Today’s Technology to Save Yesterday’s Treasures
We’ve all seen them somewhere, that box of old photos that grandma has held onto for decades, taken out and viewed at holidays or after a loved one has passed away.
A Look Inside a Long-Time Genealogist
Who can be a genealogist? What makes a person a genealogist? What makes them tick? What keeps them going? Where do you find them?
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